In this episode of Into The Gauntlet I dive into Kill The Upstart’s Neon River mastering session that was part of The Mastering Gauntlet Season 1: Electric Summer. I focus more heavily on EQ, why a single master representing the song is important, and rant about the loudness wars a bit. What could go wrong? Watch & find out!
In this episode of Into The Gauntlet I dive into Mark Woods’ Devil mastering session that was part of The Mastering Gauntlet Season 1: Electric Summer and walk through what I’m listening for, the questions I ask myself to reach a final master; compare Christian’s master and mine, dive into mixing tips, and share lessons I learned during this challenge.
Welcome back to Into The Gauntlet, where I dive into each mastering session that was part of The Mastering Gauntlet Season 1: Electric Summer. This episode, I’ll be doing a walkthrough of my mastering process on Machina’s single: That’s Me. Afterward, I’ll provide an A/B comparison between Christian’s master and mine, as well as dive into some mixing tips for the song and share lessons I learned during this challenge.
Welcome to Into The Gauntlet, where I dive into each mastering session that was part of The Mastering Gauntlet Season 1: Electric Summer. This episode, I’ll be doing a walkthrough of my mastering process on Selenium‘s single: That’s Me. Afterward, I’ll provide an A/B comparison between my competitor’s master and mine, as well as dive into some mixing tips for the song, and share lessons I learned during this season’s challenge.
I peruse a lot of facebook production and DAW groups daily looking to help others in my free time, & daily, I see people asking the same questions about mastering: if it’s possible with stock plugins, or what plugins should they get? While I must say that the debates rage much more heavily in certain groups like Producer Dojo, and Ableton Live, there was a common denominator among them;
“You can’t master with stock plugins, go buy more!”